# Christmas observation **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 5, 2012, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-observation/643032 "2012-12-05T02:39:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-observation/643032/1 "2012-12-05T02:39:50Z")
Maybe its either just me, or its still early December. This has got to be the first year in memory, that I have not heard of anyone thats gotten their hands slapped, after either trying to cancel the christmas tree , or rename the christmas season to the holiday season. Seems there was always one school district or city council that was going to try this, and gets shot down , as if they did not know what was going to happen. Declan ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-observation/643032/2 "2012-12-05T03:42:54Z")
The governor of RI got into a flap over the Holiday tree, even though he just continued the tradition of the past 2 decades. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-observation/643032/3 "2012-12-05T03:45:50Z")
The War on Christmas is just starting to heat up. Watch Fox News. I’m surely they’ll have a story about this every day. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-observation/643032/4 "2012-12-05T04:48:04Z")
Damn hurricanes and elections, taking everybody’s attention away from the things that really matter… ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-observation/643032/5 "2012-12-05T13:01:15Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > The War on Christmas is just starting to heat up. Watch Fox News. I’m surely they’ll have a story about this every day. \*\*Ask and ye shall receive. \*\* (Right from FoxNews) [Church Cancels ‘Charlie Brown’ Over Atheist Outrage](http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/atheist-outrage-sinks-charlie-brown-show.html) **Seek and ye shall find.** (That Google is _amazing_) [LA judge dismisses lawsuit over park Nativity displays](http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/11/30/la-judge-dismisses-lawsuit-over-park-nativity-displays/) > [@](#): > > LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles federal judge on Thursday dismissed a Christian group’s lawsuit to force suburban Santa Monica to reopen spaces in a city park to private displays, including Christmas Nativity scenes. [Journalists attacked for reporting on Christmas tree controversy](http://cphpost.dk/news/national/journalists-attacked-reporting-christmas-tree-controversy) > [@](#): > > The on-going controversy over the Christmas tree and the housing association in Kokkedal, a town north of Copenhagen, took another turn this weekend, when two journalists from TV2 News escaped unharmed after their van was attacked by 25 masked individuals. > > The journalists had gone to the Egedalsvænget housing complex to report on a petition that was gathering signatures of those who had lost confidence in the housing association’s board. > > The board had voted against paying 8,000 kroner [about US$1800] for the annual Christmas tree and party, but had earlier in the year approved the payment of 60,000 kroner [about US$10,550] for a party celebrating the Muslim holiday of Eid. Five out of nine of the board members are Muslims. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-observation/643032/6 "2012-12-05T16:55:07Z")
You don’t have to watch Fox News. The Daily Show [summarizes their antics](http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-december-3-2012/the-war-on-christmas--friendly-fire-edition) for you. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-observation/643032/7 "2012-12-05T17:19:13Z")
Can I just say that I love that the War on Christmas™ has become part of our nation’s holiday tradition. Soon we’ll be complaining that it’s strarting earlier and earlier every year. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-observation/643032/8 "2012-12-05T17:36:27Z")
I’m to old to serve in the War on Xmas, but I support our brave troops. ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-observation/643032/9 "2012-12-06T02:09:50Z")
I know a staunch Southern Baptist who had one of those “Keep Christ in Christmas” stickers on his car, he got a bit upset when I asked him why he didn’t keep the mass in Christmas. For what it is worth I’m agnostic but don’t have a Problem with Christmas public or private. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-observation/643032/10 "2012-12-06T02:37:20Z")
For what it’s worth, my local mall is having a Christmas tree competition on Facebook, where you can vote for your favourite Christmas tree - except that they’re calling them “holiday trees.” ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-observation/643032/11 "2012-12-06T04:06:37Z")
Thanks, I knew the dope would not disapoint. Declan ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-observation/643032/12 "2012-12-06T04:12:50Z")
I like the traditions, but I don’t kowtow to the dogma. And Jesus can have my Lionel Trains when he pries them from my cold dead hands. “The God I believe in ain’t short o’ track, Mister…!”